Parisians have mixed feelings about these locks and whether they are to be removed is being tossed around by the city. Around the world lovers are attaching locks to bridges to symbolize their eternal love and throwing away the key. On the Pont de l’Archeveche near Notre Dame there are currently over 2,000. My guess is they’re only temporary and how they will be transferred to metallic trees, like in Russia, or whether talented French conceptual artists can come up with some other way to display them, only time will tell.